Donald Insall Associates has won planning permission for a 162-room hotel in the heart of Chester.

Its proposals for 1-13 Frodsham Street will replace a two storey development of 1980s shop units with a four-storey scheme with roughly 700sq m of ground-floor retail space and a rooftop restaurant with a balcony looking out towards the city’s cathedral.

Donald Insall Associates chairman Tony Barton said the proposals had been created in close collaboration with Historic England and local authority Cheshire West and Chester Council.

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